North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that his country’s ties with Russia had been strengthened through “sharing blood, life and death in the same trench” in the Ukraine war, as he sent a New Year’s greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kim’s message followed President Putin’s own New Year’s greeting to the North Korean leader on December 18, which praised the “heroic” role played by Pyongyang’s troops in Russia’s western Kursk region and “clearly proved the invincible friendship” between the two countries, state media reported.
In his message to Putin, published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Saturday, Kim said 2025 was a “really meaningful year” for bilateral ties, and called relations between Moscow and Pyongyang a “precious common asset to be carried forward forever not only in the present era but also by posterity generation after generation”.
“Now no one can break the relations between the peoples of the two countries and their unity,” Kim said, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
South Korean and Western intelligence agencies say North Korea deployed thousands of troops to support Moscow in its war against Ukraine.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on New Year in a letter, published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
ReplyDelete"Dear my comrade! On behalf of the government of the DPRK and the Korean people, I extend the warmest and sincerest greeting of best wishes to you and, through you, to the government of the Russian Federation and the fraternal Russian people on the occasion of the New Year 2026," the letter reads.
Ким Чен Ын поздравил Владимира Путина с Новым годом. Лидер Северной Кореи отметил в поздравительной телеграмме, что власти КНДР и корейский народ всегда будут оставаться с Россией.
ReplyDelete«В уходящем 2025 году корейско-российские отношения еще больше укрепились как самые искренние союзнические отношения, делящие кровь, горе и радость в одном окопе»,— написано в телеграмме, которую распространило ЦТАК.